(1975)
Victoria Cabello: Italian television presenter, born to an Italian father and an English mother; she grew up in Valsolda, a small town in the province of Como, just a few kilometers from Switzerland.

(1975)
Jennifer Kane: American accountant who worked at March and McLennan on the 100th floor of the World Trade Center in New York City.

(1948)
James Taylor: American singer and songwriter whose introspective and sensitive songs helped a generation through the transition period from the turmoil and dissention of the ’60s to the less politically oriented ’70s.

(1948)
Virginia Bottomley: Scottish politician, a Conservative Member of Parliament who returned at the General Election on 6/11/1987.

(1947)
Mitt Romney: American businessman and politician, Republican Party candidate who won the November 2002 gubernatorial election in Massachusetts and who threw his hat in the 2008 race for the White House.

(1946)
Liza Minnelli: American singer and actress who won an Academy Award for "Cabaret" and an Emmy for her "Liza with a Z" television special (both in 1972) and three Tony's including one for "Flora, the Red Menace" in 1965.

(1946)
Christian Pierret: French politician, a member of the Socialist Party, who was minister, MP of Vosges and mayor of Saint-Die-des-Vosges.

(1933)
Jesús Gil: Spanish businessman and politician, who served as Mayor of Marbella between 1991 and 2002, and presided for a 16-year tenure as president of the Spanish football club Atlético Madrid.

(1931)
Robert Oakley: American diplomat whose 34-year career (1957–1991) as a Foreign Service Officer included appointments as United States Ambassador to Zaire, Somalia, and Pakistan and, in the early 1990s, as a special envoy during the American involvement in Somalia.

(1923)
Walter Schirra: American astronaut who flew on Mercury 8 in 1962, making six orbits of the Earth; pilot of Gemini 6 in the first outer space rendezvous between two manned vehicles on 12/15/1965; with Gemini 7; and Apollo 7 in 1968, orbiting the Earth 163 times.

(1920)
Françoise D'Eaubonne: French feminist, who introduced the term 'ecofeminism' (écologie-féminisme, éco-féminisme or écoféminisme) in 1974.

(1920)
Jean Reimbold: French political activist, a leading member of the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS) ["Organisation of the Secret Army"], a short-lived French dissident far-right paramilitary organisation during the Algerian War (1954–62).